Publications by authors named "P Henningsen"

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  • - The study investigates the psychosocial protective factors that may help adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) manage post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), highlighting the importance of resilience, sense of coherence, and social support.
  • - Data from 234 ACHD patients revealed that a stronger sense of coherence and better social support significantly lowered PTSS, while low resilience increased the risk of developing these symptoms.
  • - The findings emphasize the need for early parental and social support, and suggest that screening for these resources could guide vulnerable patients toward better care, ultimately improving their psychosocial well-being and quality of life.
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Introduction: While ample data demonstrate the effectiveness of inpatient psychosomatic treatment, clinical observation and empirical evidence demonstrate that not all patients benefit equally from established therapeutic methods. Especially patients with a comorbid personality disorder often show reduced therapeutic success compared to other patient groups. Due to the heterogeneous and categorical personality assessment, previous studies indicated no uniform direction of this influence.

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Introduction: According to ICD-11, personality disorders (PDs) are defined by the severity of self and interpersonal dysfunction in terms of personality functioning (PF) and an optional assessment of specific maladaptive personality trait expressions. Also, somatoform disorders are replaced by somatic symptom disorder (SSD). This study examines associations using the novel diagnostic criteria of SSD in an unselected primary care sample, PF, and maladaptive traits in patients with and without SSD.

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